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College Threatens Students Over Email Addresses

Posted by kdawson on from the unclear-on-which-side-of-the-at-sign-it's-at dept.

superdave98 writes "As a sign that a CIO has way too much time on his hands, Santa Rosa Junior College is sending emails threatening lawsuits to staff and students who have the letters 'SRJC' in their private email addresses. They contend that people could be confused and think these are official email addresses. Sure, I suppose people who fall for 419 scams probably could be fooled, but not any reasonable humans. I can't believe they found a lawyer who thought this was a good idea."

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  1. Doubly Strange by hedronist · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is more than a bit surreal since SRJC has a long history of being on the net.

    For example, Santa Rosa Junior College is one of the very few non-4-year colleges to have a .EDU domain name. In the early 90's they had two junior admins, Dane Jasper and Scott Doty, who went on to become the founders of a Mom-and-Pop Internet company that actually succeeded. It started as Sonoma Interconnect, but is now known as Sonic.net.

    It's a shame to add this squirrely episode to that history.